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Archive for December, 2008

In previous post of the series, I blogged about classic mistakes and best practices for SharePoint development. In this post I am going to focus on the following best practice: The best practice approach – Development lab In last few years I managed a number of SharePoint based projects and most mistakes I mentioned in [...]

19 Dec, 2008

KPIs for Masses – Part 2 and Part 3

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

I have published two new articles on EndUserSharepoint.com. KPIs for the Masses: A Dashboard based upon a date-time field In my the first two articles of this series, Visual Indicators for the Masses and Embed KPIs as a List View, I discussed ways to create simple KPIs in WSS. This article will show how to [...]

I already blogged about setting up a SharePoint team, and I am going to explain the technical side of that in this post. Here are the classic mistakes and best practices on how to setup development environment for a SharePoint team. Environment 101 Mistake – Installing SharePoint on a developer workstation It is nice to [...]

10 Dec, 2008

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: books

Although I do not work with NAV too much, I am happy to announce a new book about latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. The co-author of the book, my dear colleague, Vjekoslav Babić is one of the leading NAV consultants in Europe. If you are looking for a good book about NAV this is [...]

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09 Dec, 2008

Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

My first blog post at End User SharePoint has been published (Mark thank you for inviting me). SharePoint comes with really cool web parts for presenting key performance indicators, but these are only available in the Enterprise edition. If you are running Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Server Standard, it is not available. Which SharePoint [...]

09 Dec, 2008

SharePoint Reviews!

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

As SharePoint grows in complexity there are many new tools and add-ons being released everyday. That’s why we desperately needed a community site that would allow all vendors to publish information about their products. Thanks to Inna Gordin now we have one SharePointReviews.com is an independent product directory that provides SharePoint power users, developers and [...]

08 Dec, 2008

CRM Accounts and Competitors

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: crm

Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 presents Accounts and Competitors as different entities. In most cases this setup might be sufficient, but sometimes an account can be a (potential) customer in one segment of your business, and a competitor in another. While working with my customer last week, this question popped up, and here is the solution to [...]

06 Dec, 2008

End User SharePoint

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

I have been following End User SharePoint blog by Mark Miller for a while now. Mark is building a great site which is focusing on SharePoint value for end-users. It is an unique place which provides valuable information on how you can utilize out-of-the-box functionalities. You can also participate in forums, workshops, subscribe to monthly [...]

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01 Dec, 2008

Using Microsoft CRM to distribute corporate Christmas gifts

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: crm

As we are approaching Christmas season many corporations will be sending gifts to customers and business partners. For third year in a row we are using Microsoft CRM to organize the process. Here is how you can do it: Create a marketing list If you are sending different kinds of gifts, create one list per [...]



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